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Sustainment of a Spheromak by DC Helicity Injection [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2000.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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7p : digital, PDF file
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
A spheromak fusion reactor would be simple and inexpensive, and might actually work. The absence of both toroidal field coil windings and central-column stack reduces complexity and means that the toroidal plasma will be simply connected and compact. Intrinsic self-organization, driven by DC edge currents, provides the means by which toroidal current becomes driven. The benefits of this engineering simplicity would be realized in the ultimate cost of a reactor. Previous spheromak experiments have produced good confinement with a simple design. 1MA toroidal currents, hard X-rays and β-limited discharges were all observed in CTX and subsequent theoretical studies pointed to the presence of good core-confinement during the decay phase.
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E 1.99:ucrl-jc-139644
ucrl-jc-139644
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Published through SciTech Connect.
06/01/2000.
"ucrl-jc-139644"
27th European Physical Society Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics, Budapest, Hungary, Jun 12 - Jun 16, 2000.
Wood, R D; Woodruff, S; Cohen, B; McLean, H S; Hill, D N; Hooper, E B; Stallard, B W; Holcomb, C T; Bulmer, R; LoDestro, L.
Funding Information
W-7405-ENG-48
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